I have my splitter some what like what you have here. It stands Vertical as well. I have a back problem, and the Horizontal splitters like El Toro has shown, is a killer for a person with a bad back. While I'm in the bush, I do all my splitting while working off my knees. Have no choice, and when I have to handle those bigger diameter blocks of fire wood, I just roll them close as possible to the splitter, and tip them onto the platform of the splitter. I built the platform 20" deep X 15" wide, and is 4" high. At the top of the tower, I have a chunk of 1" X 4" X 16" Flat bar, and that is where I have a the cylinder mounted. The height of the splitter is 5' high. My wedge is 12" deep X 3 1/2" wide at the top, and is 9" high. The material I used I beam, or H beam (not sure which is which), is 8" X 4", and when I get into a knotty piece of Ash, or Maple, and the odd piece of Elm, that is where I run into the twisting. I tried running braces from the top of the tower, to the bar, for mounting to the lift arms of the three point hitch, but that helped a little. Now I went out behind the barn earlier, where I have a frame from the bottom of a gravity wagon, that IO ave scrapped and it was built out of I, or H beam. The I, or H beam, is 2 1/2" wide X 4" high. What I'm now planning on doing is placing a couple of pieces of this beam together, side by side, and with pieces of beam going across the back of them, and welding them together. I'll even stitch weld along the face of the beam, and grind it down smooth, that way the will not interfere with the movement of the wedge. With any luck, that should eliminate the twisting. Thanks for all the help everyone. Bruce.
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